25 new tricks to play better rhythm guitar - 5 cool styles to learn, results in just minutes a day, success guaranteed! Plus a feature article on the best riffs ever. And the usual roundup of lessons, reviews, and more.New product for the week of March 26, 2012

Issue #24 - Cover feature story on Eddie Vedder, and including an 18 page longinterview. Plus John Hammond, Lloyd Baggs, Redd Volkaert, Robbie Basho, a story on Gallagher Guitars, and much more.New product for the week of February 13, 2012.

Learn to play the most popular modern worship songs with this easy-to-use songbook in Volume 2 of the Top 100 Modern Worship Guitar Songbook. Includes complete lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar chord diagrams for 100 songs. Songs include: A Mighty Fortress

Brush up on your guitar chords every day of the year with this full color daily calendar. Attached to an easel that can either sit on a desktop or hang from the wall.New product for the week of March 26, 2012

From the award-winning Ultimate Guitar Book comes the 2012 Electric Guitar Classics wall calendar. Richly detailed text by Walter Carter, well-known expert on the history of electric guitars, accompanies more than 36 exquisite, full-color photographs. This calendar is sure to become a classic in its own right, a gem to treasure the whole year through!New product for the week of March 26, 2012

The Guitar Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so PC & Mac users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! 8 songs: Beck's Bolero

This book/CD pack contains 25 authentic fingerstyle solo blues arrangements for beginning to intermediate guitarists. Play fun arrangements in the styles of country blues, ragtime, Piedmont blues, prewar and postwar Chicago blues, Texas blues, and modern American fingerstyle blues. The companion CD includes a demonstration of every example in the book.New product for the week of February 13, 2012. Includes "tab" tablature notation.

The term 12-bar blues has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock 'n' roll, and other forms of popular music. This book and CD package is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12-bar blues with authority. It covers many blues styles, including country, Chicago, Texas, swing, R&B, blues-rock, and funk blues. You'll also learn the blues bass scales and a history of the bass in blues music. The CD includes 51 full-band tracks!New product for the week of February 20, 2012. Includes "tab" tablature notation.

Il Lamento di Tristano is a set of variations on two themes that are in highly contrasting styles. Rodriguez juxtaposes fragments from Wagner's opera, Tristan and Isolde, with a 14th-century monophonic dance, Lamento di Tristano. The work opens with the two themes combined in a florid cantillation led by the flute over passionate Spanish guitar strumming. The original Medieval theme follows in a seductive dance-like setting in keeping with the melody's arabesque character. The ensuing variations explore the work's central dramatic conflict: Wagner's lush chromatic harmonies vs. the modal simplicity of the original Medieval Lamento. The two themes gradually merge as a synthesis is reached.New product for the week of February 27, 2012.